Some packages have quite extensive test suites and so running the test suite
every time Sage builds would not be popular. That is what SAGE_CHECK is for.
But other packages seem to have trivial tests, which take very little time to
execute. Would it not be better if these were run every time Sage was built?
In the GLPK package I'm looking at, the test suite consists of one test that
executes in less than 1 seconds on a 900 MHz SPARC. [1]
I guess the current systems of only running tests with SAGE_CHECK is consistent,
but given 99% of people will not build Sage with SAGE_CHECK=yes (and if you do,
the build will probably fail), it seems to me several packages are not getting
tested, when they could for little extra time.
Worth a thought anyway.
Dave
[1] One might reasonably question how good the test suite is in such a case. I
personally do not believe you can properly test a non-trivial piece of software
in such a short time.
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